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Quotes About Horrible

ISIL is dangerous. They're a threat. They're a brutal, horrible force that needs to be dealt with.
~ Lois Frankel
I've read one too many thrillers that had really horrible technology in them.
~ Daniel Suarez
I'd like to make character-based dramas. I end up writing thrillers a lot - these psychological character-based things with weird people doing horrible things to each other - coming to a theatre near you!
~ Joseph Mazzello
I've been lucky enough to work with some great directors, and I don't want to throw that away by doing one big horrible big budget film.
~ Martin Compston
Depression is an illness. It is not a ticket to genius. It is not an interesting personality quirk. It is horrible and all-consuming and really hurts.
~ Matt Haig
An orphan's curse would drag to HellA spirit from on highBut oh More horrible than thatIs the curse in a dead man's eye.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I'm seized by sudden horrible fear – the thought of living without carbs is terrifying.
~ Marian Keyes
And everything is vulnerable to harm, one way or another. Everybody is vulnerable. It's kind of horrible when you think about it. All that breakage, without so much as an intention behind it half the time. All that tantalizing fragility.
~ Marilynne Robinson
In the equal light of disinterested scrutiny such things are not themselves. They are transformed into pure object, and are horrible, and must be burned.
~ Marilynne Robinson
But if you eat this chap who's God,' said Llewelyn stoutly, 'how can it be horrible? If it's alright to eat God why is it horrible to eat Jim Whittle?' 'Because,' said Dymphna reasonably, ' if you eat God there's always plenty left. You can't eat God up because God just goes on and on and on and God can't ever be finished...
~ Anthony Burgess
Of course it was horrible,' smiled Dr. Branom. 'Violence is a very horrible thing. That's what you're learning now. Your body is learning it.
~ Anthony Burgess
So also to Sir Robert Peel was Catholic Emancipation horrible, so was Reform of Parliament, so was the Corn Law Repeal. They were horrible to him, horrible to be thought of, horrible to be expressed. But the people required these measures, and therefore he carried them, arguing on their behalf with all the astuteness of a practised statesman.
~ Anthony Trollope
There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
But you, Holmes-you have changed very little-save for that horrible goatee. These are the sacrifices one makes for one's country, Watson, said Holmes, pulling at his little tuft. To-morrow it will be but a dreadful memory.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I must love being nothing. How horrible it would be if I were something! I must love my nothingness, love being a nothingness. I must love with that part of the soul which is on the other side of the curtain, for the part of the soul which is perceptible to consciousness cannot love nothingness. It has a horror of it. Though it may think it loves nothingness, what it really loves is something other than nothingness.
~ Simone Weil
I was feeling rational and restless, which is horrible for watching movies
~ Sinclair Lewis
grief is long and messy and horrible—but it's not an illness. And you cope how you cope. There's no 'well' about it.
~ Sophie Kinsella
I had nightmares I thought were really horrible until I woke up and remembered what reality was at the moment.
~ banks iain m iii
One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism.
~ David Foster Wallace
Of all teachings that which presents a far distant God is the nearest to absurdity. Either there is none, or he is nearer to every one of us than our nearest consciousness of self. An unapproachable divinity is the veriest of monsters, the most horrible of human imaginations.
~ George MacDonald
Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting.
~ George Orwell
Gordon eyed them with inert hatred. At this moment he hated all books, and novels most of all. Horrible to think of all that soggy, half-baked trash massed together in one place.
~ George Orwell
I'm not sure that there's anything more horrible than staying in a furnished room in Paris, especially
~ George Sand
Donald Trump's administration is floating a proposal to return to the moon - and to shut down the International Space Station to help pay for it. The first part of this idea is good. The second is horrible.
~ Leroy Chiao